🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>This SSD chip is due in 1996.  I wonder if it's really the Pentium?
>>
>>I've heard claims of a 64-bit member of the x86 family; *if* the chip
>>has a new instruction set, perhaps they'll have the x86 instruction set
>>as the 32-bit instruction set, and some new instruction set as the
>>64-bit instruction set.
>>
>>Doesn't sound like the Pentium, in any case.
>
>Well, why not?

If it doesn't run x86 code, like the chip you spoke of, it ain't
Pentium, which *will* run x86 code, from everything I've heard (in fact,
I've not heard that it'll run any other code, except perhaps with the
aid of simulators or binary-to-binary translation, but hey, most people
are trying to run x86 code on *their* chips, so...).

I've not heard anything to make me believe Pentium will run x86 code in
some simulation mode, either; from everything I've heard, it's an engine
intended to run x86 code, even though there may be something inside it
that "looks", in some sense, like a RISC.

And if it *does* run x86 code, well:

>If Intel delays the Pentium until 1994 it would be due
>at about the same time.

1994 and 1996 are "about the same time"?